Dear God, there are times in our lives when we feel lonely and anxious. Sometimes the fear grips so intensely that we can’t even seem to deal with normal everyday things. We are enclosed within ourselves and the thing we worry about becomes more and more exaggerated and frightening. Help us, dear Lord, to get things into perspective and to know you so well that we cannot doubt that you will save us. We pray to learn through faith that whatever may sometimes seem to be the case, yet in the end all will be well and all manner of things will be well. Bring us peace, dear Lord, a peace beyond all understanding that, like the generations of your people who have negotiated the most extreme difficulties of this life with faith and hope, even the threat of torture and death, we too may negotiate the difficulties of our life with calm reassurance that you are with us. Finally, even though there will be times when we also have walk in the shadow of the valley of death let us that we shall fear no evil, that we will know that that you are with us and that there is nothing in heaven or earth that you cannot, or will not, save us from.
Christianity – Pastoral and Thinking
Thoughts and sermons for a thinking and pastoral Anglicanism by Revd Dr Neil K Gardner